AUSpace: Recent submissions
Now showing items 701-720 of 2005
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BALTA Project C17 - Building a Supportive Environment for Social Enterprise: Synthesis of SERC 3 Research Findings
(2010-09-25)This proposal/plan describes research being conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This project involves analyzing a range of research projects conducted by BALTA with a view to identifying ... -
BALTA Project C16 – Survey of Social Enterprises in Alberta and British Columbia
(2010-09-25)This proposal/plan describes research being conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) in association with Simon Fraser University and Mount Royal University. The project is surveying social ... -
BALTA Project C-15 - Taking Social Embeddedness into Account in Community Robustness and in the Social Economy
(2010-09-25)This proposal/plan describes work undertaken by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) in association with Dr. Paul Reed of Carleton University. The project draws from recent research of Statistics Canada ... -
Can it be both? Local Food Initiatives for Social and Environmental Change in Communities
(2010-09-25)This case study report is part of a research program of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) looking at local food, sustainability and the social economy. It examines two Canadian initiatives, the Edmonton ... -
Seikatsu Consumer Coop: Scaling-up Food System Transformation
(2010-09-25)This case study is part of a research program of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) looking at local food, sustainability and the social economy. It examines the Seikatsu Consumer Co-operative in ... -
The Baby Boomers Become the Workers, 1960-1980
(2010-09-23)The focus would be on the young labour force of this period, changing social values, and the impact on working-class lives and on trade unionism. The switch from company unionism in the provincial civil service to AUPE, ... -
BALTA Project C-14 - Leadership in the Community Sector: Understanding the Challenges, Competencies and Needs of Practitioners in the Social Economy
(2010-09-22)This proposal/plan describes research being conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) in association with the University of Victoria. This project gathered information about the educational needs ... -
Attend the Hope or Next Hope Conference
(2010-09-21)The main visual theme of the conference is visions of the future from the past, so things that reference The World’s Fairs, The Jetsons, flying cars, DaVinci, Asimov, and so forth would be very appropriate. However, projects ... -
Sea Songs from Two Oceans: A Comparative Analysis of Maritime Songs from the Coasts of Yorkshire and British Columbia
(2010-09-21)Yorkshire folksong collector Frank Kidson did most of his fieldwork during the last two decades of the Victorian era. The fruits of his labours during the 1880s found expression in his pioneering collection Traditional ... -
"Keeping Older Adults at Home: Are Family/Friend Caregivers at Risk for Compassion Fatigue? and Compassion Fatigue in Family Caregivers Located in Long-Term Care Facilities"
(2010-09-21)“Keeping older adults at home: Are family/friend caregivers at risk for compassion fatigue?” In Canada there are an estimated 2.7 million family/friend caregivers, including 216,000 over age 75. These older adult ... -
Studying receptor diffusion by interpreting SPT data with a correlated random walk and a first-passage time algorithm
(2010-09-21)One of the most powerful and commonly used methods for studying molecular diffusion on the cell membrane is Single Particle Tracking (SPT). During an SPT experiment, the trajectory of a membrane-associated biomolecule, ... -
BALTA Project C13 - Return on Taxpayer Investment for Training Businesses
(2010-09-20)This proposal/plan outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), to examine the experience of what are referred to in Quebec as les entreprises d’insertion. While the term training ... -
Credit Unions as a Financing Source for the Social Economy
(2010-09-20)This proposal/plan outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This project conducted initial exploratory research concerning credit unions as a foundation for developing a ... -
BALTA Project C9 - CED and Social Economy Policy Inventory in B.C. and Alberta
(2010-09-20)This project proposal/plan outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The research will involve conducting an inventory of federal and provincial legislation (in Canada and the ... -
Exploring Applications of the Nova Scotia Co-op Development System in B.C. and Alberta
(British Columbia Co-operative Association ; Alberta Community and Co-operative Association, 2009-05)This report summarizes the results of a participatory action research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The research examined how to strengthen the co-operative development systems in ... -
Municipal Government Support of the Social Economy Sector
(2010-09-20)This report is based on research conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) in association with the Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario node of the Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerships. ... -
BALTA Project C10 - Municipal Government Support of the Social Economy Sector (Revised Plan)
(2010-09-20)This revised plan describes research being conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) in association with the Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario node of the Canadian Social Economy Research ... -
Municipal Government Support of the Social Economy Sector
(2010-09-20)This plan/proposal describes research being conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) in association with the Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario node of the Canadian Social Economy Research ... -
Exploring Applications of the Nova Scotia Co-op Development System in B.C. and Alberta
(2010-09-19)This research proposal outlines planned research examining how to strengthen the co-operative development systems in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. It builds upon earlier research of the BC-Alberta Social Economy ... -
The Nova Scotia Co-operative Development System
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2008-06-19)This presentation to the 2008 AGM of the British Columbia Co-operative Association is based on research conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The research involved a case study of the recent ...